Category: Faith

Item: Living Memento Mori
Rating: 5
Author: Amanda Marie

We All Suffer – Living Memento Mori {Review}

Posted August 25, 2020 in Faith, Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Living Memento Mori by Emily DeArdo
Publisher: Ave Maria Press (2020)
eARC, Paperback (128 pages)
Via: NetGalley
Rating:
Reading Challenges: Read 2020

Synopsis

Emily DeArdo knows what it’s like to live with a keen awareness of her own mortality. She was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at age eleven.

DeArdo draws on the medieval Christian practice of memento mori (remember you must die) and shares her personal story with unique and compelling insight into the meaning of Christian life and death. Using the Stations of the Cross to frame her explorations, DeArdo leads us to trust in God’s providence as we confront suffering and death, develop enduring spiritual strength, and courage along the way.

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Tagged as 5 star, Read 2020

May 2019 – A Much Needed Update

Posted June 13, 2019 in Faith, Life / 0 Comments

It has been way too long since I have really posted on this blog and so this post is going to be an update.

I have been in Oregon for a year working as Faith Formation Director in a parish. It has been a fun challenge. I loved the work I was doing but it was not a good fit for me. Much as I wanted to love everything about where I was, I couldn’t. And so I’m moving back to Montana.

In May I finished the last of my graduate school classes. I just have to pass a comprehensive exam the end of this summer and I will officially be able to add MA after my name. That is, provided I pass the test…

In this past year I have had some ups and some downs. At times I was tempted to focus on those downs as they always seem more prevalent than the ups. This is human nature where we often tend to focus on what when wrong and ignore the fact that so many things went right.

Tagged as Catholic, Montana, School

Grad School and Saint Bede

Posted May 24, 2019 in Faith, Life / 0 Comments

Today I am choosing to reflect on the life of the saint whose memorial we celebrate tomorrow. This saint is Saint Bede the Venerable. He lived in the end of the seventh century into the beginning of the eighth century. Bede was a monk who copied books and even authored his own commentaries on Sacred Scripture. He is the patron of scholars. (Franciscan Media)

I really don’t know much about Saint Bede beyond that. Reading the bit about his life that I did to write that opening paragraph, he sounds like he lived a pretty amazing life. As a patron of scholars, I feel like I owe him a big THANK YOU for surviving my graduate school courses.

Yes, you read that right, I am done with my graduate school courses. I just have to pass my comprehensive exam at the end of the summer and then I will be issued my diploma in December. That comprehensive exam though, I will definitely need Saint Bede and Saint Thomas Aquinas to help me out with that.

I am working on a post about what has been up in my life since I last posted a year ago. Keep an eye out for that as I am hoping to have that ready by the end of the month.